Hero (2002)
With the success of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, it seemed easy to surmise that we were going to see more kung-fu epics emerge shortly thereafter. Hero is the first formidable one of these to emerge from China, and...
Tagged: Ancient China
Ashes of Time (1994)
In ancient China, a desert-dweller named Ou-Yang (Leslie Cheung) gets in the middle of a circle of stories involving various swordsmen. Huang (Tony Leung) is a swordsman who drinks some magic wine in order to forget...
Dream Lovers (1986)
In modern-day Hong Kong, a popular orchestra conductor (Chow Yun-Fat, A Better Tomorrow) has visions of a past life as a member of the Qin dynasty over 2000 years ago. Across town, an archaeologist’s daughter...